Esther Möller

Prof. Esther Möller is the Deputy Director of the Centre Marc Bloch at Humboldt University Berlin. Her work focuses on the history of relations between Europe and the Arab world, migration, humanitarianism, and Mediterranean studies. She holds a PhD from the University of Mainz (2011) and a habilitation (2021), both in History. Previously, she served as a visiting professor for North African cultural history at Bundeswehr University Munich (2020–2022) and held the Alfred Grosser Visiting Professorship at Sciences Po (2022–2023).

Her research explores 20th-century refugee movements from Europe to the Arab world, emphasizing Germany's diaspora in Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia. She has led projects on humanitarian aid in the Arab world, funded by the German Research Foundation and Gerda Henkel Foundation, and conducted archival research in Cairo via a postdoctoral fellowship. Current projects integrate interdisciplinary debates on colonial/postcolonial migration contexts.

• Awards: Postdoc Fellowship (Orient-Institut Beirut), Alfred Grosser Visiting Professorship
• Key Research: Egyptian Red Crescent history, French cultural policy in Lebanon
• Grants: DFG, Gerda Henkel Foundation, Fritz Thyssen Foundation